Diets of snakes from a temperate region in South America may depend more on phylogeny (ancestry) than ecology, according to a study published May 6, 2015 in the open-access journal PLOS ONE by Gisela Bellini from Instituto ...
Plants & Animals
May 6, 2015
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In a new study, published in Nature this week, a research team led from Uppsala University in Sweden presents the discovery of a new microbe that represents a missing link in the evolution of complex life. The study provides ...
Cell & Microbiology
May 6, 2015
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Scientists at the Salk Institute have discovered a novel type of pluripotent stem cell—cells capable of developing into any type of tissue—whose identity is tied to their location in a developing embryo. This contrasts ...
Cell & Microbiology
May 6, 2015
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Water, when cooled below 32°F, eventually freezes—it's science known even to pre-schoolers. But some substances, when they undergo a process called "rapid-freezing" or "supercooling," remain in liquid form—even at below-freezing ...
Condensed Matter
May 6, 2015
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To fence or not to fence? That is the question facing conservationists concerned with barriers that keep wildlife in and people out.
Ecology
May 6, 2015
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Imagine taking strands of DNA - the material in our cells that determines how we look and function - and using it to build tiny structures that can deliver drugs to targets within the body or take electronic miniaturization ...
Bio & Medicine
May 6, 2015
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University of Oregon geologists have tapped water in surface rocks to show how magma forms deep underground and produces explosive volcanoes in the Cascade Range.
Earth Sciences
May 6, 2015
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Coral reefs are generally associated with warm, shallow and crystal-clear waters in the tropics. Other species of coral, however, flourish in the deep cold ocean where they also form large reefs. Now researchers from the ...
Environment
May 6, 2015
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One Los Alamos National Laboratory employee has been released from the hospital and another is in critical but stable condition after being burned in an accident last weekend at the nuclear weapons research facility.
Other
May 6, 2015
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Plans for summer holidays are already taking shape. But before jetting off for some fun in the sun, many travellers will have to cope with long delays on the airport runway.
Engineering
May 6, 2015
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